GALLEY BEGGAR PRESS SHORT STORY PRIZE 2023/24
K. LOCKWOOD JEFFORD is from Cardiff, South Wales, and a former NHS psychiatrist and psychotherapist. She completed an MA in creative writing with distinction at Birkbeck in 2017. Awards include first prizes in Brick Lane Bookshop short story award (2023), Bath Short Story Award (2021) and the VS Pritchett Prize (2020). Her work appears in Prospect Magazine, Mechanics’ Institute Review, Aesthetica magazine, 100 Voices (Unbound, 2022) and many short story prize print anthologies including Bristol, Fish Publishing, Rhys Davies. She has recently completed her first collection of short stories, Picasso’s Face, supported by an Arts Council DYCP grant.